Tuesday, June 25, 2013

High school senior Jessica Lee dropped a little science in her yearbook quote:

Our readership does not include any chemists (sorry Mark, your bathtub crystal meth operation doesn't qualify you) so you likely don't have the periodic table memorized, making the joke hard to discern.

Atmosphere is one of my favorite indie rap acts. Slug's dope. A little emo at times but he pulls it off. I've seen Atmosphere live 4 times and its always a good show. I believe Rob has listened to a little Slug due to his collaborations with Murs, Felt: A tribute to Christina Ricci and Felt 2: A tribute to Lisa Bonet.

I saw Berms as a keynote lunch speaker at a work conference a few years ago. He gave a decent talk, reviewing the early days of ESPN. But he closed out his speech very poorly, abruptly transitioning into reciting his favorite baseball nicknames (the ones that he himself created years ago).

The Bert Blyleven joke didn't go over well in a mixed rowd, even when he explained in detail how he came up with the jokes. Awk-ward.

I have many bad things to say about W&M but when it comes to getting commencement speakers they really bring it. I recall Cosby, GHW Bush, Scalia, George Will, Mags Thatcher, Sandy Baby O'Connor before during and after my time in the Burg. Mostly Federalist Society types but impressive nonetheless.

Some boring donk who wrote a Thomas Jefferson biography was my graduation speaker. After puking in the parking lot per-commencement I really don't remember much else. But hey, at least it wasn't 95 with 90 percent humidity...oh wait...

i just heard a kid at ian's piano recital sing that element song. very impressive, but singing about chemistry is never going to help you score chicks (unless it's part of the rock'n'roll triumvirate).

Alright, Rootsy's confession time: A bass player I know invited me jam with him and a couple other guys tonight. I wasn't sure what to expect, but what I got was a grueling session of dad rock. I feel gross.

Shit, I don't even know what most of it was, other than being dad rock. I know some of it was one guy's tune sketches, each one sounding like the last. I'm going to take some Robert Pete Williams and try and sleep it off.

Love it when you get through airport security and realize phone is in car. Made it though. Tsa improved their stock in my eyes....when I showed my boarding pass again which was already sharpie'd I explained that I had to go back to car for phone....he said "yup, I was expecting you".